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From: phoenix@genat.UUCP (phoenix)
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Subject: Re: Social implications of magic
Message-ID: <2616@genat.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 27-Mar-86 02:50:52 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 27 02:50:52 1986
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References: <9865@ucla-cs.ARPA> <1559@gitpyr.UUCP> <168@hope.UUCP> <722@puff.UUCP>
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Organization: Phoenix Temporal Restorations, Ultd.
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Keywords: magic,technology
Summary: magic vs science

In article <722@puff.UUCP> anich@puff.UUCP (Steve Anich) writes:
>In article <168@hope.UUCP>, corwin@hope.UUCP (John Kempf) writes:
>>    Consider a world where magic and technology both exist.  
>
>     Read _Riding a Pale Horse_ by Pieres Anthony for a world
>     were magic and science coexist. On this earth, Issac
>     Newton's work in alchemy an interest in the occult allowed
>     him to also produce the laws of magic (to go with those
>     of gravitation).
>
>				steve anich
>				

Also try "Operation:  Chaos" by Poul Anderson about a world where science
discovered how to degauss "cold iron" and thereby allowed magic and science
to co-exist.  "The Goblin Reservation" by Clifford D. Simak and the novellette
by Robert A. Heinlein called "Magic, Inc." and usually found bound with
the novelette "Waldo", as "Waldo and Magic, Inc." are also both excellent
stories on this theme.
-- 
					The Phoenix
					(Neither Bright, Dark, nor Young)


---"A man should live forever...or die trying."
---"There is no substitute for good manners...except fast reflexes."
---"Never appeal to a man's "better nature".  He may not have one.
    Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage."